Lech Wałęsa

January 20, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change

All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere.  It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...

July 15, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Labor Unions’ Iranian Opportunity and Responsibility

Co-authored by Stuart Appelbaum On June 20, less than a week after the election of Iran’s new president Hassan Rowhani, the 42-year-old Iranian trade unionist Afshin Osanl...

September 14, 2012 | John Hannah |

Good Friends are Hard to Find: Why the US Should Support Mithal Alusi and Kurdistan

I know. Foreign policy has been largely an afterthought in the presidential campaign. Iraq, for all intents and purposes, is off the radar screen entirely -- except as a Democratic talking point,...

July 30, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama Lost Poland

Can Romney win back America's old post-Cold War ally?

February 27, 2012 | Michael Ledeen The Wall Street Journal |

Santorum Was Right About Iran—When It Was Unpopular

A grandfather who fled Mussolini taught him to prize freedom.

November 15, 2011 |

Belarus, the Land of No Applause

Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...

November 9, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How To Punish Iran

The clever new sanctions that could cripple Tehran’s economy and rattle its leaders.

July 13, 2011 | |

Contentions Iran Clash Much Ado About Nothing

Much is being written about the clash between Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. The two most important things about this spat have so far...

June 13, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

After Fidel

With Castro fading fast, it's time to rethink U.S. policy toward the Cuban regime and give hope to a beleaguered people.

May 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Forbes.com

Revaluing Freedom

OSLO -- Too often in recent times Norway has embarrassed itself as a sanctimonious dispenser of devalued Nobel Peace Prizes, having more to do lately with Norway's left-leaning politics than...

November 2, 2009 |

How The Wall Fell

When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...

October 15, 2009 |

Peace Porridge

President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...

June 19, 2009 | Human Events |

How Should We Help Iran?

Suppose that President Obama decides to support the revolution in Iran. You may say it’s unlikely, but you’d have said that the revolution itself was pretty darned unlikely, wouldn&rs...

February 19, 2009 | |

Try Real ‘Change’ Toward North Korea

We shouldn't ''engage'' with a government that kills, suppresses and starves its citizens.

August 14, 2008 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

War and Democracy

For many centuries, it was taken for granted that no modern country could move from dictatorship to democracy without considerable violence. The first wave of democratic revolution–the last...

April 6, 2005 | |

The Pope of Freedom

By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la...